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Best Quietus Poems

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Premium Member Quietus
In a mire brewed
betwixt puddles of hell and mute dissent 
a martyr wades - 
weighed down by chains of shame and disdain
alas the thirsting self-absorbed...

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Categories: quietus, angst, conflict, dark, depression,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Before My Pen Is Hushed
      Before my flowing, poetic pen is hushed in Quietus,
And I have reached my journey's end with folded hands;
 ...

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Categories: quietus, death, life, poetry, writing,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Lament Not
Lament not, oh worthy lama
This life is but a dream
Live in joy, free from fear stigma 
Things are not what they seem

Childlike, given to play
To...

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Categories: quietus, dream, life, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In a Sunken Garden
In the sunken garden of love,
Pure water is conserved.
For-get-me-nots grow from above.
Fragrant roses are served.

Love will make our scent sing,
Birds fly and thrill with zing,
I...

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Categories: quietus, garden, love,
Form: Verse
Eve of Eternity
She couldn't contain her rhapsody demeanor much more
hugging her husband and gushing with excitement as he closed the door
the third class cabin was modest but...

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Categories: quietus, boat, death, sad love,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Living In the Dark
It is the night, in deepest dark, that death foretells
the demon heart in which all lonely feeling dwells.

Yet, in plain sight, our eyes can’t see...

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Categories: quietus, anxiety, dark,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Reconciled
An introvert since I was a young child,
I am tranquil quiet and never wild;
never thinking it would be an asset, 
    ...

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Categories: quietus, how i feel,
Form: Rubai
Premium Member Pondering My Journey
I _ 
have been thinking and pondering my life so far
     as I meander back to sad places and faces 
the...

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Categories: quietus, journey, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rose
I know that I am dying, I am fading fast,
     my life is almost over, by tomorrow I will be dead;
and...

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Categories: quietus, baby, death, flower,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Illumine My Soul
Light to my soul, heavenly bliss,
If you forgive me Lord
Loving you naught can be amiss,
For penance I afford.

Death seems ever so near
My soul should be...

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Categories: quietus, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hope Is the Path
 
"... they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength;
they shall mount up with wings as eagles; ...." 

    ...

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Categories: quietus, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member reflections in water -
early morning …

as day blinked its eyes
I rowed the rickety little dory out -
smooth rivulets behind me in the mirror surface
slowly expired as I stopped...

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Categories: quietus, goodbye, history, longing, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Reflections In Water
early morning
as day blinked its eyes
I rowed a little dory out - smooth rivulets
behind me in the mirror surface.
I stopped in the middle
wrapping the misty...

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Categories: quietus, lost love, memorial,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Eternity In Sunrise
Spring awakens to remnant snow
  As winter meets his quietus, he has to go
  Soon daffodils will lithely sway
 And spring's rhapsody will...

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Categories: quietus, butterfly, daffodils, spring,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member War Song
I wake up in this fine old house
The quietus resides
The silence, almost tangible
Its pulse is almost palatable 

It's time to watch the rising sun
Another day...

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Categories: quietus, bereavement, death, introspection,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs